Slay the Spire 2 review bomb didn't actually affect sales that much, Steam expert says, even though "in any other case you would say this game is dead"

Slay the Spire 2 class Regent on stone throne.

Comfortably one of the biggest hits of the year so far, Slay the Spire 2 launched to a massive spike of over 573,000 concurrent players on Steam. Though the community's remained steady, reviews on Steam have nose-dived in a way that's surprised developer Mega Crit, but one analyst doesn't think such things ultimately moved the needle in terms of sales.

During a talk at Digital Dragons attended by GamesRadar+, Tom Kaczmarczyk, the founder and CEO of games analysis firm IndieBI, discussed the importance of player scores on Valve's store. "The social proof of having a game which is mostly positive instead of overwhelmingly positive, but has 1,000 reviews instead of 600, I think the 1,000 is gonna perform better," he begins.